Evenings at the microscope : or, Researches among the minuter organs and forms of animal life (1884)
Gosse, Philip Henry, 1810-1888 · London : Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge · leaf 286
by side, like a sheaf of spears in an armoury. Each WOHMS. 273 one merges, at its upper end, into a sort of blade, whichis slightly bent, and which tapers to an exceedingly finepoint. But its chief peculiarity is that the blade has adouble edge, not like a two-edged sword, the edges seton opposite… … PUSHING POLES OF SEBPULA. These pencils of spear-like bristles are the organs bywhich the protrusion of the animal is performed. Theiraction is manifestly that of pushing against the walls ofthe interior, which on close examination are seen to belined with a delicate membrane, exuded from the…
Zoology · Microscopy
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